IMAc starts itself up automatically every night at midnight. Any fix yet?

We have had this problem since updating to Lion. I see from the site that this is an old problem, so I am hoping it has been solved by now.

Do you mean "goes from turned off to turned on," or "wakes from sleep?" Different issues.
There is a "Schedule" option button in System Preferences > Energy Saver that will tell the computer to automatically turn itself on at whatever time is set:
Note that, if the first checkbox is selected and nothing else changed, the computer will start at midnight.

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IMac starts up (from shutdown) every day at midnight

I've probably accidentally fiddled with something, but could anybody give me any reasons why my computer starts itself up from a shut down state at 00:00 every day?
It's getting quite annoying. :-D

That wasn't it, I think it's a problem with Leopard.
This thread solved my problems though.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1265807&tstart=60

Alu iMac wakes up from sleep every night

Since I have installed the last Leopard Security Update my iMac wakes up from sleep every night at 1 pm.
Enyone has an explanation?

I have the same problem, i am located in France and the wake up tile is also 1:00 AM i have some doubt about Elgato Eye TV could be the root cause.
I have seen that in main admin account the eye tv helper task is lauch during logging.
I remove it, and the mini does not wake up this nignt, but ...
When i launch Eye TV, it installed again eye tv helper task...
Are you also and elgato user ?
Pascal

Use Automator to launch a program every night at midnight

I want Automator to launch Tivo Transfer every night at midnight. How would I set that up? Thanks!

You can actually create an iCal event that will run an AppleScript or Automator action at a given time, and have that event repeat at the same time every day. Another way is to use a Cron job.
For iCal:
1. Save the Automator workflow as an application.
2. Select Add Alarm on a new or current event.
3. Select Open File: Other, and open your saved workflow application.
4. Enter the time and date that you want the workflow to run.
If iCal is not running at the scheduled time, the workflow will run when iCal is next opened.
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Re: Slow broadband every night 10pm-Midnight

I am experiencing very slow broadband every night from 10pm. I searched the forum and saw this post and notied it was marked as 'solved' Can you tell me what the problem is here and how to solve it? I
magnamundian wrote:
Subject says it all really, switched to BT around 1 month ago and every night between 10pm and Midnight my broadband slows to a speed that would make dial-up blush. After midnight things ramp back up to normal. I don't P2P and this situation is consistent regardless of whether I have used the broadband heavily during the day (Netflix) or not used the broadband at all (until I tried to use at 10pm), so I'm discounting any ideas of traffic shaping or limits.
BT Line/Speed Checker results (http://diagnostics.bt.com/speedtest/)
After a good 10 minutes wait (not the 45 seconds advertised) the Exchange > HomeHub test came back with... well nothing really, the nifty Exchange > House graphic disappeared (after 10 minutes) and I suppose the results page was due to appear but after another 10 minutes I was still looking at "transferring data from BT.com" in the bottom of my browser... If I manage to get it to complete the cycle later I'll post the result.
At all other times of day the broadband lives up to expectations. Any advise appreciated, we previous had no problems with BE Broadband except for dire connections to US/Japan Servers (Sony/Square Enix etc), which was pretty much a problem of insufficient bandwidth on their backbone network.
Additional information from BTHomeHub.home:
ADSL Line Status
Connection information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
9 days, 18:20:04
Downstream:
20,609 Kbps
Upstream:
1,276 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
2.1 dB / 6.8 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
27.5 dB / 16.6 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
0.0 dBm / 12.6 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
1086302352 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up):
3453520 / 1589
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):
0
HEC Errors (Down/Up):
65406711 / 1420
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
0 / 364
t is not clear to me what to do from the contents of this thread. Thanks.
magnamundian wrote:
Subject says it all really, switched to BT around 1 month ago and every night between 10pm and Midnight my broadband slows to a speed that would make dial-up blush. After midnight things ramp back up to normal. I don't P2P and this situation is consistent regardless of whether I have used the broadband heavily during the day (Netflix) or not used the broadband at all (until I tried to use at 10pm), so I'm discounting any ideas of traffic shaping or limits.
BT Line/Speed Checker results (http://diagnostics.bt.com/speedtest/)
After a good 10 minutes wait (not the 45 seconds advertised) the Exchange > HomeHub test came back with... well nothing really, the nifty Exchange > House graphic disappeared (after 10 minutes) and I suppose the results page was due to appear but after another 10 minutes I was still looking at "transferring data from BT.com" in the bottom of my browser... If I manage to get it to complete the cycle later I'll post the result.
At all other times of day the broadband lives up to expectations. Any advise appreciated, we previous had no problems with BE Broadband except for dire connections to US/Japan Servers (Sony/Square Enix etc), which was pretty much a problem of insufficient bandwidth on their backbone network.
Additional information from BTHomeHub.home:
ADSL Line Status
Connection information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
9 days, 18:20:04
Downstream:
20,609 Kbps
Upstream:
1,276 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
2.1 dB / 6.8 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
27.5 dB / 16.6 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
0.0 dBm / 12.6 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
1086302352 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up):
3453520 / 1589
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):
0
HEC Errors (Down/Up):
65406711 / 1420
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
0 / 364

A "lay" explanation is this.
As IMJ has stated, at night the noise margin is dropping to a level whereby it becomes difficult for the DSL to bitload the data into the ADSL spectrum without undue error correction and bitswapping, and often increased error rate.
This situation tends to throttle down throughput .... and if it got worse, which clearly it isn't doing, it's just staying at a poor level .... the modem would drop the connection, and renegotiate .... and come back with target margin, at which juncture it would bitload and throughput would return to normal.
So what IMJ is saying is ... if it doesn;t drop and continues to hobble along .... force a drop, or reset it, and it will come back as if it had dropped by the modem forcing a drop.
In the end DLM will hopefully get hold of the situation and set the line parameters in a fashion which will sustain a connection and bitload properly 24 hours a day .... but sometimes it needs help, and especially if it didn't linetrain properly.
If it continues manual intervention is useful to set the noise margin accordingly until the line has re-trained.
Resetting the hub or modem is not a good idea with DSL, however in this instance if an automatic cure is not forthcoming, it is the ONLY time I would advocate a router reset, especially at night, when margin is depleted.

Imac safari browser shuts down automatically when using Flashplayer. Any fix ?

safari shuts down automatically in combo with FlashPlayer. Any fix ?

You may have a Safari add on installed that's not compatible with Flash. A crash report may reveal what's going on...
If Safari has just crashed, press the Report button on the CrashReporter dialog box to view the crash information.
Copy/paste the entire contents of the Crash Reporter window into your reply. If the crash report dialog does not appear or the crash is hard to reproduce, crash logs can be retrieved from the ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter> folder.
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Firefox update 31.0 automatically signing me out email, social media, etc. automatically during current session. Any fixes on this bug yet?

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# Click on '''Show Folder'''.
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I have had wireless issues sense Leapord, any fixes yet? its a shame that my wife has to sit in front of our 27 inch imac on a $300 Windows computer to use the web effectively. I have tried all fixes and some work while others don't but all temporary

This Lion wireless issue has become more than just an irritation, so much so, my wife has resorted to sitting in front of a 27 inch imac with a 300 dollar Walmart Windows computer to get the bills paid and use the web. And yes, there is not a fix out there I haven't tried over the last year or so, some worked and some didn't, but all were temporary at best. Same issue with my Macair, I wonder if its a hardware issue, like the video card in my 2006 MBP, it went out after the warrenty and then I found out there was a calss action suit going on over it, unfortunately Apple wouldn't cover it and wanted 7oo bucks to fix it, sold that as parts.
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Imac wakes itself

How do I stop my imac waking itself everynight at midnight?

This is discussed in some other places here, but I start to post the solution here:
My iMac also starts to wake up every night at 1 a.m. - even if I shut it down, it starts up at exactly this time. The different times (midnight, 4 a.m., etc.) seem to have something to do with time zones or daylight savings time settings. I searched here for an answer, and there was one that I tried (and only this one, so I can tell that this is really the solution for this annoying problem).
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I hope this helps all other people here.
Thanks to the one who gave this hint!
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany - Tom

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The whole point with the remote is that I don't need a keyboard or a mouse.
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Computer crashes every night

My powermac g5 has started to crash every night after midnight. I've shut off all backups that occur at night, fixed permissions, re-installed OS 10.5.6, ran tech tool pro, which showed no problems.
I'm attaching the crash report and configuration.
If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Randy
Fri Dec 19 08:48:23 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0091ECAC): "SMUNeo2SlewCtrlLoop::didWake - cannot establish communication with clock driver\n"@/SourceCache/IOPlatformPluginFamily/IOPlatformPluginFamily-331.0.0/SM UNeo2_PlatformPlugin/SMU_Neo2SlewCtrlLoop.cpp:1440
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0009BCF0 0x0009C694 0x00029EA0 0x0091ECAC 0x0090DCD8 0x0090D40C 0x0090CC84 0x0090CF7C
0x0034C700 0x0034CAC4 0x0003F9BC 0x000B0E54
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.SMUNeo2PlatformPlugin(3.3.1d0)@0x916000->0x924fff
dependency: com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily(3.3.1d0)@0x903000
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily(3.3.1d0)@0x903000->0x915fff
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2cb1d500)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9G55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:39:01 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerMac9,1
del: PowerMac9,1, BootROM 5.2.2f1, 1 processor, PowerPC G5 (3.0), 1.8 GHz, 1.25 GB
Graphics: kHW_ATIrv351Item, ATY,RV351, spdisplaysagpdevice, 256 MB
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Memory Module: DIMM1/J4001, 512 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC3200U-30330
Memory Module: DIMM2/J4100, 128 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC3200U-30330
Memory Module: DIMM3/J4101, 128 MB, DDR SDRAM, PC3200U-30330
Modem: Jump, V.92, Version 1.0
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: Maxtor 6L300S0, 279.48 GB
Serial ATA Device: Maxtor 6Y080M0, 76.34 GB
Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082B
USB Device: hub_device, (null) mA
USB Device: Hub in Apple Extended USB Keyboard, (null) mA
USB Device: Kensington Expert Mouse, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Extended USB Keyboard, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Cinema HD Display, (null) mA
FireWire Device: d2 Quadra (button), LaCie, 400mbit_speed
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HI Randy and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
Try disconnecting the USB hub for one night and see if the G5 crashes. If it doesn't, then it's obviously not the hub. Just a process of elimination.
Also, check the hard disk just in case:
Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Insert your Mac OS X Install disc in your computer’s optical drive or an optical drive connected to your computer, and then restart your computer. When you hear the startup tone, hold down the C key until you see the progress indicator, which looks like a spinning gear.
Follow the onscreen instructions until the menu bar appears with the Utilities menu in it, choose Utilities > Disk Utility, click First Aid, and then click the Verify button. If DU reports errors, click Repair. When it's finished, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. In the Startup Disk window select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
Also, re: "SMUNeo2PlatformPlugin" go here: http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=20060628202143332
Carolyn
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